So, back in the day I used Wowmatrix, simply because it was the easiest way to update my addons. One day it stopped working, and i read about how evil it was and how Curse and WowInterface has killed it. I whole-heartedly agree with blocking Wowmatrix, if I had known what they were doing, I would not have used it. Wowmatrix did almost everything wrong, and I never will use it again.
However, they did do somethings right. Mostly,
having a super easy way to update all/most of a user's addons.
When I heard about the new mmoui minion thingy i was excited. Curse has most the addons I use, and WowInterface has almost all the rest, and the tabs/modules thing means it could potentially work for all addons/sites, but it's taken you several months to finally get to this point, but its pretty disappointing. (as I understand it, Curse was moving to block Wowmatrix, and you had to as well, and couldn't wait till minion was done)
My major complaint is that minion no concept of
version numbers.
For example (i picked this cause its on the top of my addon list):
My currently installed AdvancedTradeSkillWindow (via the CurseClient) is 0.7.6 which is the latest as far as I can tell. WowInterface (at the time of writing) says 0.7.5 is the latest, and MMOUI minion wants to install the
older version. This was one that people who hated Wowmatrix argued, that Wowmatrix installed old versions of addons and authors will get complaints about broken addons from users claiming they have the latest when they don't. I understand and respect that you guys are actually doing it legally/morally whatever, but at least add some
basic math that can figure out "hmm, they have 0.7.6, we have 0.7.5, we should probably leave it alone".
Essentially, this breaks the whole program, as I can't use the "update all" and I have to manually check Curse first before updating every addon in minion
Also, another suggestion: I dislike the color choices. "Addon not available" should
NOT be red, as red "catches people's attention, and is often used either in a negative way to indicate danger and emergency" (
wikipedia), when in minion it simply means that addon is not on your site. This seems a little... evil to me, as it conveys that addons that aren't on your site are bad/red. Change the message to something more neutral like: "
Addon not recognized. (More info...)" and have a link explaining that addon is not on your site, so it can't be managed with minion. Then, the "Current [Version ...]" should be changed to a light green. (Because green indicates good, in case you didn't know). And when an update is available it should say "Version 1.1 is available, you have 1.0" This is more informative to users, and it would make the whole "Minion has no concept of math/numbers/versioning" glitch slightly more manageable.
Sorry for the wall of text, and sorry for being negative, but I feel if you are going to write software that ensures you have the
latest version of an addon, it should at least understand
version numbers and not revert you to an older version.
Regards, Vaest